What is it?

QTools™ is a collection of open source tools for embedded software development on desktop platforms, such as Windows, Linux and macOS. The QTools collection contains the following tools developed by Quantum Leaps:

Licensing QTools™

Most tools included in the QTools™ collection are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The text of GPL version 2 is included in the file GPLv2.txt in the root directory of the QTools distribution.

The TCL/TK 8.4 package is distributed under the terms of the TCL LICENSE AGREEMENT, included in the file TCL_LICENSE.txt in the root directory of the QTools distribution.

Source Code

In compliance with GPL, this distribution contains the source code for the utilities contributed by Quantum Leaps in the <qtools>/source/ subdirectory, except for the QSPY source code, which is provided in the <qtools>/qspy/source/ directory. All tools with names starting with 'q' have been developed and are copyrighted by Quantum Leaps.

The GNU-ARM (EABI) compilers for Windows

The installer arm-eabi-gcc6.2.0-r3.exe has been used and after the installation, the libraries for Cortex-A and Cortex-R5 have been pruned to reduce the size of the distribution. Please refer to the GnuToolchains project for the source code.

How to get help?

Please post any technical questions to the Free Support Forum hosted on SourceForge.net. Posts to this forum benefit the whole community and are typically answered the same day.

Direct Commercial Support is available to the commercial licensees. Every commercial license includes one year of Technical Support for the licensed software. The support term can be extended annually.

Training and consulting services are also available from Quantum Leaps. Please refer to the Support web-page for more information.